Animation Showcase: Dance, Baby and Pregnancy! (Patreon)

Hello everyone, Alice here with you today! ☀️

This week, we wanted to show you our new dance interactions, as well as some of our first animations made for babies and pregnant Parafolks! To showcase these, I made a short video that you can watch at the top of this Patreon Post. ⬆🎥 

Note that this post is for Patrons only so please don’t share it, thank you!

🎥 The Animations in the Video

• Dance - Low Skill

• Dance - Low Skill Variation 

• Dance - Medium Skill

• Dance - Medium Skill Variation

• Dance - High Skill

• Dance - High Skill

• Baby - Laying Idle (previously shown here)

• Baby - Laying Idle Variation

• Baby - Grabbing Feet

• Pregnant Parafolk - Idle

In case you missed it, you can find our previous animation showcase in this Patreon post. Also, the music you can hear in today's video is Andrei's lovely composition called Inner Child that we shared in this previous post here!✨

💃 How Will the Dances Work?

• For the initial launch, we prioritized creating casual dance animations. By that, we mean the kind of moves that could fit as many settings as possible or the sort of moves one could make at a club or a casual party. We aimed for a neutral style, avoiding overly specific or technical choreography. However, we would like to see more dancing styles after Early Access! Why not try something like swing, hip hop, belly dance, jazz, or even country dancing? 

• As you may have noticed, each skill level has one base animation that will loop a few times and one variation (for now) that will play from time to time. Later on, we would love to add more variations for each skill, and dance styles.

• Regarding my workflow for making these animations, as always when I’m not confident enough to shoot my own references I look for videos of talented people, in this case skilled dance teachers! Once I’ve edited everything and it’s validated, I can start animating in our 3D software, Blender❤. 

• Some of you may be wondering if Paralives will have dance animations that work with a duo. We would love to add that option, however, Parafolks dancing while holding each other is a big challenge, especially because of our character height customization feature. After the initial release of the game, we might have more time to create dance animations for couples and to make sure they look good even if a small Para dances with a tall one!

👶 Baby Animations and a Little Sneak Peek at Pregnant Parafolks

• Today we also wanted to show you a bit more of our baby animations. In the video above, you’ll find two of our main baby idle animations and one cute idle variation I’ve just made where the baby is trying to grab their feet to eat them. More baby animations are planned for the following weeks and we can’t wait to show them to you!

• We included a little treat at the end of the video: YES, this is our first pregnant Parafolk ever. 🥹 Sonia kindly created her so we could showcase this new idle animation to you. It is the very first task that Lina has completed for Paralives and we love the result!

That is all for today! We really hope you’ve enjoyed this post, please do not hesitate to share your feedback and ask any questions you may have in the comment section below. We’re always happy to discuss ideas and hear your opinions. ❤

Have a great weekend!
Alice (◔◡◔)/